C[omp]ute

From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:49:07 -0300

On 17 March 2011 RSA dissclosed that it had detected an APT (Advanced
Persistent Threat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Persistent_Threat)
to it's SecureID tokens - http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872

SecureID tokens are small devices that display "random" numbers that you use
to connect to secure networks (the kind of thing that many banks here in Chile
use to secure online banking).  These are used by securityand political
agencies, amongst others, and an "APT" typically means "some foreign
government", so this could be a big deal.

More information on the attack has now been released -
http://blogs.rsa.com/rivner/anatomy-of-an-attack/ .  It seems that it was
started by using a zero-day attack agains Flash embedded in a mail attachment
sent to several workers.  Once the attackers could enter the system they used
privilege escalation attacks to gain access to secure servers and then
transferred data out.

No details, that I can see, on who was responsible.

Andrew